If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.

It's apparent that we can't proceed any further without a name for this institutionalized garrulousness, this psychological patter, this need to catalogue the ego's condition. Let's call it psychobabble, this spirit which now tyrannizes conversation in the seventies.

Anything is possible, but only a few things actually happen.